Digital Edition of the Coptic Old TestamentDigital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament

Project Description

The Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament is a long-term project at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It fills a huge lacuna, as no modern edition of the Bible in Coptic exists. The project aims to provide a complete documentation of the manuscript evidence, digital editions of all OT manuscripts, critical editions of all OT books, corpus-linguistic analyses and translations into English, German and Arabic.

Aims and Methodology

Codicological and textual reconstruction of all extant witnesses to the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament

Standardised system for naming Coptic biblical codices

Development of digital tools for the Coptic Bible / Coptic literature

Digital Workflow

Outcomes

Digital editions (diplomatic & critical) and translations of the OT

Huge corpus of digitised texts for the lexicography, dialectology and linguistic history of Ancient Egyptian

Behlmer, Heike. 2017. “The Use of the Psalms in Shenoute’s Tractate He Who Sits Upon His Throne.” In From Gnostics to Monastics. Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton, edited by David Brakke, Stephen J. Davis, and Stephen Emmel, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 263, Leuven: Peeters, 315–30.

Behlmer, Heike, and Frank Feder. 2017. “The Complete Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic Sahidic Old Testament. A New Research Project at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.” Early Christianity 8: 97–107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1628/186870317X14876711440169.

––––––. 2019. “The Recovery of Two Parchment Leaves Containing Portions of Genesis in Sahidic.” Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament. July 9. URL: http://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/blog/-/blogs/the-recovery-of-two-parchment-leaves-containing-portions-of-genesis-in-sahidic.

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Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities